Berlin, Ocean Pines News Worcester County Bayside Gazette
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 I just want to get away. Is it esoteric, literal or simply a measure of calculated desperation? I can’t tell you. But, what I can tell you is that I simply want to run away, even if it is for a week or two… or a month… or three…. Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 I enjoy teaching. I gave cooking classes when I was a club and market chef, and they were enjoyable, albeit a tremendous amount of work. In the end, folks were able to eat some good food and perhaps learn a trick or two. I especially enjoyed when a guest… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 Salads, oh sweet salads. These are new favorites of mine, despite the fact that I was raised in a salad household. Unlike my parents, notably my mother, I always had more of an affinity for meat and potatoes. But, salads? They just never did anything for me. And I… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 I am fifty-two years old. When I stare longingly into a bowl of Wisconsin beer-cheese soup, chock-full of cream, butter, milk and gobs of extra sharp cheddar, I think of three things: deliciousness, heart attacks and constipation. I mean, don’t you? I love Beer-Cheese Soup. It has stood the… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 Oh, to wake up on Frenchmen Street, a lingering hangover evidence of another successful night in the Big Easy. It has been two-and-a-half years since I have visited New Orleans, and it saddens me thinking about that much time between my short retreats to the town that makes no… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 Well, so far most people think that I am completely insane. Single father, full-time professor, columnist, owner of a restaurant and now I want to open a new one? The answer is yes. I am flattered and humbled at the reaction that I have received upon announcing the opening… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 Acrid notes of bittersweet chocolate and sumac bounce around on my palate. The fizz of the ginger ale further accentuates the exhilarating flavors that I am experiencing. Eureka, I have made a delicious bitters from scratch. This is my first foray into homemade bitters, and I think I am… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 I love it when friends stop by the restaurant to visit. In our business, we consider many of our guests to be friends, so suffice it to say that we see a lot of friends throughout the week. But it’s the old friends — good folks visiting from the… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 Oh, these fickle times during which we reinvent the wheel, conforming this terrible fantasy into something a little tastier. Right when things start to look better, new information comes down the pike that will change how we our lives and conduct business for another, unknown and extended period of… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 In the age of pandemic, what have we come to learn? One thing for sure is that we have learned a new manner in which to communicate our differences. The channels through which we can immediately spew our disdain on anyone who disagrees with us have become a demise… Read more »